CLYDEBANK councillor Marie McNair has won the race to be the SNP's candidate for Clydebank and Milngavie at next year's Scottish Parliament election.

Cllr McNair won a five-way contest among local party members against Roza Salih, one of the Drumchapel campaigners known as the “Glasgow Girls”, Debra Torrance, Glasgow councillor Bailie Anne McTaggart, and Kate Waddell.

She has been a member of West Dunbartonshire Council since 2007, representing Clydebank Waterfront first for Labour, then as an independent from 2012, and then for the SNP since 2017.

A former St Margaret of Scotland Hospice nurse, Cllr McNair won the backing of West Dunbartonshire MP Martin Docherty-Hughes in the race to succeed Gil Paterson, who is retiring in May.

Reacting to news of her selection, she said on Twitter: "Honoured to be selected for my home constituency.

"Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me. Now the hard work begins!"

The constituency takes in the Kilpatrick, Clydebank Central and Clydebank Waterfront wards of West Dunbartonshire, and the Milngavie and Bearsden North wards of East Dunbartonshire.

The 2021 Holyrood poll is due to be held on Thursday, May 6.